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Kathleen Dean Moore recently gave a speech titled “If Your House Is On Fire” at an event sponsored by the Portland, OR chapter of 350.org, an international group of advocates for climate change. Watch the video here or on YouTube.

Today is Mother’s Day. All over town children are bringing their mothers breakfast in bed. Cheerios with jam maybe, or bread they toasted themselves, and cards with loopy hearts. Fathers are bringing flowers to the mothers of their children, and maybe they share a quiet time thinking about the miraculous…

The non-profit YachtWorld Heroes (formerly the YachtWorld Foundation) has recognized several individuals, including Kathleen Dean Moore (co-editor of Moral Ground) who use their boating and professional connections to protect our marine environments and share their joy of boating. Other 2012 Heroes include Celine Cousteau, Jean-Michael Cousteau, and Dr. Sylvia…

According to the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, 14 percent of Americans deny that climate change is occurring. Because it persists in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, such denial might best be understood as an act of will, loyalty or something worse. Is there any…

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As the true fury of global warming begins to kick in—forests flash to ashes, storms tear away coastal villages, cities swelter in record-breaking heat, drought singes the Southwest, the Arctic melts—we come face to face with the full meaning of the environmental emergency:…

John A. Vucetich is a contributor to Moral Ground. He is also a scientist – an animal ecologist to be precise. He co-leads (with Rolf O. Peterson, one of our online contributors) the famous Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project, the longest continuous study…

We know the outcome. On September 10th, 2010, President Barack Obama refused to accept a solar panel from author and activist Bill McKibben and 350.org. What is now perhaps the most famous (or at least well travelled) solar panel in history was originally installed on the…

It’s happened again. I’m on book tour with Moral Ground, a call for moral action to avert the worst effects of a warming and degraded planet. The audience is convinced; climate change is real, it is dangerous, it is upon us. They are empowered;…

Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

Although climate change is an economic and scientific issue, it is fundamentally a moral issue, and it calls for a moral response.

Climate change is a human rights crisis, as it undermines the systems that support human lives, liberty, and security.

Climate change is a crisis of justice, as the hardships caused by the profligate use of fossil fuels come to rest on the shoulders of the poor and voiceless.

Climate change is a failure of reverence, causing the extinction of uncounted plants and animals, their beauty and abundance.

And climate change is a betrayal of love, as it undermines the hopes of those we love the very most—our children and grandchildren.

MORAL GROUND is a book that explains, in plain and poignant language, the many reasons why we have a moral obligation to the future to leave a world as rich in possibilities as our own. It is a call to ethical action, in the words of moral leaders all around the world. As Desmond Tutu wrote, “If we act on the side of justice, we have the power to turn tides.”